Peter Burwasser of Fanfare, in a recently published review, praised prolific Delos artist Constantine Orbelian for recordings he made over two decades ago with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra (MCO) during his burgeoning career as a concert pianist, shortly before he became the MCO’s director in 1991. Burwasser pays tribute to his subsequent success as a…
New Review from Ralph Graves’s Off Topic’d blog for Constantine Orbelian: Shostakovich, Mozart, Bach Piano Concertos: “The collection opens with the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Shostakovich. It’s a sassy and sarcastic reading, its slightly off-skew character sounding a little like Prokofiev. The final movement is an out-and-out romp between the trumpet and piano in…
By the time Mozart wrote Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414 in 1782, hehad relinquished his Salzburg post for good, and moved to Vienna to seek his fortune as a freelance composer: a risky proposition in an era when not even the finest musicians were able to survive without noble patronage. It…
Both of the Mozart concertos offered here are works of his early maturity. The Concerto No. 10 in E-flat major for Two Pianos was composed in 1779, not long after the composer had reluctantly returned to his position at the court of Prince-Archbishop Colloredo in Salzburg after his extended journeys to Paris and several German…
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